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Novak Djokovic Equals Steffi Graf’s File For Weeks Spent As World No. 1

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Tennis legend Novak Djokovic is every week away from one other milestone after equalling Steffi Graf’s all-time file for many weeks spent at quantity certainly one of 377. The 35-year-old Serbian stays prime of the newest ATP rankings launched on Monday bringing him degree with the quantity of weeks that Graf spent as girls’s world primary. Djokovic returned to primary spot for a seventh time after his victory within the Australian Open on the finish of January which was a file equalling twenty second Grand Slam singles title.

Two former world quantity ones loved success on the weekend — Daniil Medvedev claiming the Rotterdam title and Carlos Alcaraz making a successful return to the circuit in Argentina.

Medvedev’s three set victory — his sixteenth profession title — over Italian Jannik Sinner sees him return to the highest 10 — he rises three spots to eighth. The dropping finalist’s comfort is a climb of two locations to twelfth within the rankings.

Alcaraz’s profitable return to the tour, after nearly 4 months out, in touchdown the Argentina Open on Sunday sees him solidify his second place within the rankings.

Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas — whom Djokovic beat within the Australian Open ultimate — rounds off the highest three. Germany’s former world quantity two Alexander Zverev arrested a decline in his rating since his comeback after tearing ankle ligaments throughout final 12 months’s French Open which stored him out of motion for the rest of the 12 months.

The 25-year-old, who additionally revealed after exiting the Australian Open within the second spherical he had sort 1 diabetes because the age of three, rose one place to sixteenth after reaching the second spherical in Rotterdam.

Rankings

1. Novak Djokovic (SRB) 7070 pts

2. Carlos Alcaraz (ESP) 6480

3. Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 5940

4. Casper Ruud (NOR) 5515

5. Andrey Rublev 3860

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